Have you forgotten that the populous has been forced to bail-out free-market industries that couldn't balance their own books? Or the populous has now been forced to provide (fund) bonuses to the very people who caused bankrupt institutions? People have "come out of the swamps" not through free market, but through the efforts and ideas of a minority of often brave men and women under many government systems; monarchies, feudal systems, dictatorships, theocracies (one of the least free systems). Gee, drag out a history book. Russia and China have both done in decades what the US took 200 years to accomplish; before you point out the human costs, I may add that the human costs of American imperialism has been enormous..drag out a history book. What is truly obscene is the billions and billions that have been spent destroying people (wars) and economies (war and occupation by agencies such as the IMF). Let us not forget who has stood in the way of clean energy..oil, coal and tobacco industries which are the results of your unregulated free-market stance. The free-market=accumulation of money in the hands of a few at the expense of the many= the wants of the few taking over the needs of the many. State monopoly or big business monopoly? Cuba has one of the best research and development programs in the world. Partcipatory democracy, which I see very little of today, is what makes any democratic system work for the people, by the people and of the people. The problem is not about science, it is about people who give up their democratic powers by being silent about things that matter. It is about not knowing historical data but following dogma, political or religious. It is about oligarchy worship and not knowing that there is no such thing as democracy under a dictatorship and especially if that dictatorship is difficult to recognize in the form of companies, CEO board of directors, and the under 10 families that dictate the economies( and wars) of the world. Silence artists, scientists, intellectuals...you silence everyone..and silence is accomplished in our world, at this moment, by no funding and under-funding.